Games Like AETHUS

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Automation 9.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a strong focus on terraforming and resource management within a hostile, atmospheric sci-fi setting.

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Set entirely underground, this game emphasizes mining and complex base-building in a visually striking sci-fi environment.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Space 12.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on lunar mining and base-building, offering a similar industrial progression system to AETHUS.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 12.5%, Survival 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game perfectly mirrors the underground mining, crafting, and base-building loop found in AETHUS.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Space 11.3%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the spirit of planetary exploration and modular base construction with a distinct focus on mining and resource gathering.

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down automation and survival game that emphasizes exploration and efficient base expansion on alien worlds.

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Automation 14.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Space 9%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines scavenging and base-building in a sci-fi setting, focusing on the same 'dig and build' loop.

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Automation 13.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes open-world survival and crafting, allowing players to build massive bases while terraforming their surroundings.

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based game offers deep automation and mining mechanics that will appeal to fans of AETHUS's building systems.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Space 32.2%, Survival 25.5%, Sci-fi 24.1%, Exploration 18.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more action-oriented, its core loop of mining through procedurally generated underground caverns is a perfect thematic match.

MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.

Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Space 10.9%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, top-down survival game that focuses on building a modular base on a desolate planet.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for players who enjoy the complex resource management and automation aspects of survival-crafting games.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Automation 18.9%, Space 12.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features modular base-building and resource management in a space-faring context.

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Mining 15.4% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox experience centered on building vehicles and bases while exploring and mining alien landscapes.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Space 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi colony sim captures the feeling of managing a complex base while surviving in the vacuum of space.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Survival 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Exploration 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an unparalleled sense of narrative-driven exploration and survival in a dangerous, alien environment.

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on large-scale automation and space-based expansion, perfect for players who enjoy the industrial side of AETHUS.

Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.

Why similar: Mining 26.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 13.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated mining and resource-management game that mirrors the underground exploration focus of the seed game.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Automation 14.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep mining and automation game that focuses on defending and expanding a massive underground base.

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing yet addictive resource-gathering and base-building game that shares the top-down perspective of AETHUS.

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on automation and exploration in a mysterious, hostile world.

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 14.4% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the core loop of mining and building a sandbox outpost in a harsh environment.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 19%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World Survival Craft 11.2% ★, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory builder that excels at the same satisfying resource-loop and base-expansion found in AETHUS.

In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a sandbox survival experience with a focus on base-building and resource management on a dangerous planet.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Mining 18.7% ★, Automation 13%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore sci-fi survival game that emphasizes complex base-building and atmospheric management.

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.4%

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 18.9%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique mobile base-building mechanic that requires mining and exploration to survive volcanic eruptions.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 19.7%, Space 14.7%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an expansive look at industrial automation and resource gathering on a galactic scale.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.4%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and crafting with a unique train-building mechanic in a surreal sci-fi setting.

Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that features modular base-building and exploration in an alien environment.

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Mining 24.8% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Automation 15%, Open World Survival Craft 14.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.2%

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Automation 10.7%, Building 10.4%, Space 10.1%

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Mining 17.1% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Automation 9.4%, Crafting 8.6%

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Mining 14.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8.1%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 11.8%

Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.

Why similar: Mining 23.9% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Space 10.4%, Resource Management 9.3%

Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.

Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 10.6%

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Mining 19.7% ★, Automation 13%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.9%

Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.

Why similar: Automation 18%, Mining 16.1% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 11.2%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 18%, Space 13.5%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 10.7%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Mining 14.3% ★, Automation 14%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.3%, Survival 8.8%

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Mining 26.8% ★, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.3%

Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%

Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 12.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 10%

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Space 12.6%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%

Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.

Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Mining 15.5% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11%, Building 10%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.1%

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.7%

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Mining 24.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Building 10.9%, Survival 10%

A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.

Why similar: Mining 19.4% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%

Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.

Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Mining 15.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 7.5%

Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Automation 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 10.2%

Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Why similar: Resource Management 21.9%, Mining 16.6% ★, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 12%